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Dorchester County board moves to document and protect burial sites; seeks access to cemetery inside proposed solar project
Summary
Board members discussed formalizing collection of cemetery discovery forms, photographing and GPS-tagging unmarked graves, concerns about state repatriation processes under NAGPRA, and a plan to request permission to document a cemetery found inside the footprint of a stalled solar array. Members set follow-ups but recorded no formal vote on the access request.
Members of a Dorchester County burial‑site board on [date not specified] debated steps to document and protect unmarked graves around the county and considered a formal request for access to a cemetery that sits inside the leased area of a proposed solar project.
The meeting, opened by the chair (S2), centered on improving how the board handles cemetery discovery forms and on outreach and documentation for sites that are identified by residents or found during field work. "We're not just collecting data and just storing it. We are going through it and validating it," S2 said, describing current practice and the board's intention to add photographs and GPS coordinates to submissions.
Board members described several recent developments that prompted urgency. S4 reported visiting a site on Red Hill Road — near Hicks Brook Road — where headstones are…
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